When Brad Ausmus first visited Israel he found just two baseball fields in the entire country, one a high school-level facility, one short of that. Efforts to grow baseball were just getting started.

(JTA) — The love affair between Jews and baseball stretches back decades. But it hasn’t always extended to the Jewish state. The Israel Baseball League, launched in 2007, folded after only one season.

This is just stuff that other teams do not have to deal with,” an Israel Baseball official told JNS. “We don’t talk about it that much,” he said.The post Twice ...